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This is the kind of stuff that keeps us going:

Voters in the District overwhelmingly supported a medical marijuana initiative in 1998 -- 69 percent sided with Initiative 59 -- but the results of the election were impounded for close to a year as members of Congress amended the District's 1999 budget to forbid the use of public funds to count the votes. After a court allowed the results to be published, Congress, spearheaded by then-Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), again amended the District's budget legislation to prohibit the implementation of the medical marijuana initiative. Citing excessive interference...